Wire-fastener.



W. E. AMBEHG. WIRE FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED MAY27-1916.

Patented M124, 1917 nnrrnn s'rarns rarnwr onrren.

WALTER E. AMBERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHICAGO STEEL POST00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

WIRE-FASTENER.

Application filed May 27, 1916.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TAL'IER E. AMBERG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in lVire-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for fastening fencing to thesupporting posts, and is especially adapted to secure wire fencing tometallic posts. The invention 'consists in the combination andarrangement of parts shown in the accompanying drawing and described inthe following specification, and it is more particularly pointed out inthe appended claims.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a fragment of fencepost and attached fencing, showing fastening devices made accordingto'this invention, in operating position; Fig. 2 is a fragmentarysectional view showing the position one of the fasteners assumes whilebeing moved into place to secure wire to a metallic post; Fig. 3 is asectionv on line 33 of Fig. 1 and shows one of the fasteners inoperating position; Fig. 4 is a section on line 44 of Fig. 1, showinganother view of the fastener illustrated in Fig. 3; and Figs. 5, 6, 7and 8 are detail views of the fastener showing the way it appears whenviewed from different positions.

In the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a fence post preferably made ofcomparatively thin metal plates. The post may be of any well known orsuitable construction, the one shown in the drawing being formed ofangle iron as illustrated in Fig. 4. The fastening device proper,designated by the numeral 2, comprises an open link, preferably made ofa short piece of wire having the ends 3 and 4 bent backwardly on themain body of the wire, as illustrated in Fig. 8. The ends of the wire,as shown in this figure, do not extend a suflicient distance back to liein the same plane transversely of the main body of the link, butterminate somewhat short of this plane, to leave a space which whenmeasured in a direction parallel with the main body of the link, issomewhat less than the thickness of the plate which constitutes thefence post. The hooks formed by the bent portions 3 and 4 do not lie inthe same plane passing through the main body of the fastener, but areoffset angularly relative to one another, as shown in Fig. 5. Because ofthis Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24,1917.

Serial No. 100,210.

arrangement, the distance designated by the letter a in Fig. 5 isconsiderably. greater than the distance designated by the letter Z) inFig. 8, the distance (a being considerably more than the thickness ofthe plate of which the post is made, while the distance 6, as previouslystated, is less than this thickness. In the position in which'the planesof the hooks are viewed in Figs. 5 and S, the hooks are foreshortenedtransversely, so that they do not appear in their true proportions. InFig. 6 the end 4 is shown parallel with the plane of the paper, so thatit appears in its true proportions. In Fig. 7 the hook is viewed in endelevation, thus showing more clearly the angular position of the twohooks relative to one another.

The hooked ends of the fasteners are made of proper size and proportionso that when one of the fasteners is placed in position shown in Fig. 2,it will just pass through the opening 5 in the fence post 1. While thefastener is being placed in position, the wire 6 occupies a placeadjacent the lower edge of the opening 5 and the end 3 of the fastenerbears against the post just below the wire. In order for the fastener topass through the opening, it is essential that all of the parts shall bein this position relative to one another. As the hooked end 4 passesthrough the opening 5, it will drop down on the opposite side of thepost and the hooked portion 3 will move into position over the wire 6,as shown in Fig. 3. As the wire 6 enters the hook 3, it has a tendencyto rotate the fastener about its main body as an aXis, and turn the end4 to one side, so that it bears against the surface of the post 1, asshown in Fig. 4. Then the fastener is once in place, it will be apparentthat it will be practically impossible for it to become again removed,since the wire 6 holds the end 4 turned to one side, in position to bearagainst the plate of the post 1, and since the fastenor drops bygravitybelow the position in which it entered the opening. Of-course thefastener may be moved upwardly opposite the opening, but even if thisshould happen, the fact that the end 4 stands at one side of theopening, prevents its becoming removed. In practice, the fastener willnever be again moved into the positionshown in Fig. 2, and hence thewire will be permanently held in place. Another consideration whichmakes it all the more improbable that the fastener a fixed positionrelative to; one another Joy stay Wires such as are shown at 7 in Fig.1.

In this Way all of the Wires 6 311816011 strained to move together, andit is therefore .azll the rnoregimprehable that they .-would all i moveat once into a position in which the fasteners could be removed;Moreover, the Wi e and. .theia teners il not b spac d 1 1 e 'aany; andWhile most of the faS; wilf f tnon the tt m ed e of fi it 9 11s. o themw lfbe drawn pw ly teams the; i pps edge 0f he 1 hole; a i sl d n the;ase r th bottom fastfil i in F g. i will Pf ve iimvemen efthe 1 9 e 1Y6the 1 vP t; and. he ce i ass st in 'ifiiev t s "W ment of the? fi l .tvnssi'ilt P sit on 15mm Whifih th y may. b re ov d fqm the openings L W ilo diljniki jli the jq ns d ration re er e to will [be sli fiifi entf dvprevent e ral f. t asten- ;e s; ii ls r b ifl f eswhi'clihas been pesifidithrbiig'hwth opening, ln'ay; l ei gi e-n additional twist'j f er f tsv nf p .sit t thus positively locking the ifa tenertoabsoflutelypreventlescaps- Y Pr emb 9 ihfobi a ends/m made so 'f' j ncessa y .12 h ld the th pp,-

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